Left Saturday the 11th heading from Pasadena to Kingman AZ. My first stop was in Rancho Cucamonga Ca. to see the restored Richfield Service station and the Sycamore Inn which was founded in 1848.

Continuing up I-15 / Rt 66 to the Cajon Pass (elv 3776) to the site of the old Summit Inn. The Summit Inn was a historic U.S. Route 66 roadside diner built in 1952, located at the summit of Cajon Pass in San Bernardino County, California. The building was destroyed by the Blue Cut Fire on August 16, 2016. IMG_0385

Then on to Victorville to see the California Route 66 Museum and lunch at Emma Jean’s Holland Burger.

Did pass on Peggy Sue’s for lunch – been there done that.

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Off to Barstow and a stop at Casa del Desierto — a Harvey House. But along the way a tour of the Bottle Tree Ranch in Oro Grand Ca.

An unplanned side trip to a ghost town (well not so much). Calico was a silver mining town in the late 1880’s. The original town does not have much remaining – but Walter Knott (of Knott’s Berry Farm fame) donated Calico the San Bernardino County which turned it into a regional park and money making operation.

 

A couple of stops before arriving in Kingman AZ for the night was in Goffs,  Newberry Springs and Needles. Newberry Springs is home to the Bagdad cafe which played a major role in a movie of the same name. Goffs in a town in decline which has the well preserved 1914 school house which is now a museum. The town was also the base for the army desert training center in 1941 and 42.